Y2K ticking clock for fraud
Criminals are crawling, to cash in the Y2K bug with a large number of frauds - most of them with the phone - the principle is that the new year rings inThey are good narrator and bank Reparatueren Krumme vendors and software. Look all true to Get Rich quickly - before the strikes hours to 12:01 hours signal the arrival of Jan 1, 2000.
It is a new crime of opportunity for the next few weeks, “admitted Herbert Stupp, commissioner of the New York City Department of Aging, which is most often a group targeted by fraudsters.
The scams are usually tried and true, but with a Y2K-Twist: We need your bank account number (or credit card number or address or whatever) to prevent problems for you, consumer, if the calendar flips.
They play on this fear, what will happen on Jan 1, “said Holly Anderson, the National Fraud Information Center. Con artists are clever. You can read the titles.
In November, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder a national alert Scams, more than likely, given that the year 2000 approaches.
These regimes are fashioned dressing up telecommunications fraud in marketing high-tech-clothing, “says owner.
There is no breakdown of Y2K-fraud in the crime statistics. Anderson said, it is probably yet to February from sorting the different systems to determine exactly stolen what.But reports ripoffs millennium surface across the country.
äIn New Mexico, a visitor to Internal Revenue Service agent and began to ask questions regarding possible Y2K problems. After saving a lot of personal information on the “IRS” the victim uses the name, address and social insurance number to open credit card accounts, a large ring cargo invoices .
äPhone users in Oregon and Western Washington have recently been victims of “slamming” plans, where the service is activated remotely, often without the consent of customers. Caller claims to represent legitimate businesses remotely from the passage of so doing, they wanted to prevent service interruptions in the next millennium.
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